How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part 11
What follows are only rough estimates: precise figures will vary from author to author, genre to genre, circumstance to circumstance. But...
How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part 9
What are you actually going for with your writing? It’s a blunt question, but if you can answer it you’re at the heart of the Author...
How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part 8
Earlier in this series we took a look at who your readers might be and tried to nail down some details, including their age, gender, and...
Some Thoughts on Ego
Six days in a hospital ward being treated for a near-fatal illness taught me a few things, and the most major ones were completely...
How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part 7
We’re approaching the business of writing as though it were a business, expected to generate a profit for you, the writer. You can, of...
Dealing with Stress, Part 6
The human mind was made to compute answers for the human being, and most of the time it does a pretty good job for most people. When...
Dealing with Stress, Part 5
Stress is defined normally as ‘a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.’ We’re...
Dealing with Stress, Part 4
Between Immersion, where you and the stress you’re experiencing seem like one giant, painful mass, and Fixed Orbit, in which you have...
Dealing with Stress, Part 3
We’ve been looking at a ladder or pathway out of stress, leading from the depths of anxiety all the way up to total freedom from it. But...